I need ideas for how to frame a home care business that doesn't include nursing duties. Please see below for what I see offering as services. Potential pitfalls would also be good to know. I'm posing this question to better formulate how I might create a consulting business for home care that might include everything that my previous experiences had me doing, except for the actual nursing care - perhaps to check-in with an elderly loved one, do light housekeeping, meal prep, go for walks with a client or assist with motivation to do some routine exercise, be company and conversation, perhaps take a person out to help with groceries or to sit alongside and interpret doctor's appointments (to pass on to family or to assist in making further investigations or appointments)... and just basically do what family (if there is any) might not be able to do from a distance.
I don't want to have to renew my registration, as that would require much more mandatory recertifications and costs incurred. I also don't want to be responsible for nursing duties any longer - but I'm certain that I could assist in finding the resources needed, how to obtain funding for such resources through gov't programs, and possibly be retained in a slightly heavier capacity until those programs and assistance were to kick in. Or for a temporary illness/injury(?).
I just want to have a few clients (2-3) that I could assist regularly - but not so regularly that it would be mandatory that I showed up to get someone out of bed and on to their daily activities everyday. I could easily recognize when someone was declining or needed to eventually get set up with services that would do that, though. And of course, I would communicate with families about concerns, or contact EMS or primary care provider if there was a serious issue or emergency.
I suppose I might consider renewing my license if it meant that my insurance was better covered, but I wonder how much insurance I would need to just "check in" and "help out"? Also, if I am again licensed, then there is the risk of being asked or expected to do things I am no longer wishing to be responsible for - even though I know how to do these things, I haven't been doing them for a few years now, and empirical evidence changes best practice procedures over time. ***I am however, able to see things that others wouldn't, could prevent accident and injury from happening through safety measures that I could suggest and implement around the house, would be able to check to see if someone's been taking their medications or eating properly, handle a small skin tear and monitor for infection (etc), and have a problem solving mind that likes to help others continue to be independent.
I guess I'm just looking for ideas on how to frame this for my smaller city (about 20,000). There is already a volunteer group that covers similar things, like driving to doctor's appointments, but they don't include interpretations and solutions to individual's problems (say perhaps, finding an OT that can create ergonomical eating utensils (or even jerry-rigging some myself with a cloth and tape over a handle temporarily), or a contractor for a home modification for ease of mobility)... and they don't offer continuity of care and monitoring, from what I understand.
Let me know what YOU would want from what I'm describing so that I can propose what I will do for a client, and to create a mission statement.
Thanks hive mind!
I don't want to have to renew my registration, as that would require much more mandatory recertifications and costs incurred. I also don't want to be responsible for nursing duties any longer - but I'm certain that I could assist in finding the resources needed, how to obtain funding for such resources through gov't programs, and possibly be retained in a slightly heavier capacity until those programs and assistance were to kick in. Or for a temporary illness/injury(?).
I just want to have a few clients (2-3) that I could assist regularly - but not so regularly that it would be mandatory that I showed up to get someone out of bed and on to their daily activities everyday. I could easily recognize when someone was declining or needed to eventually get set up with services that would do that, though. And of course, I would communicate with families about concerns, or contact EMS or primary care provider if there was a serious issue or emergency.
I suppose I might consider renewing my license if it meant that my insurance was better covered, but I wonder how much insurance I would need to just "check in" and "help out"? Also, if I am again licensed, then there is the risk of being asked or expected to do things I am no longer wishing to be responsible for - even though I know how to do these things, I haven't been doing them for a few years now, and empirical evidence changes best practice procedures over time. ***I am however, able to see things that others wouldn't, could prevent accident and injury from happening through safety measures that I could suggest and implement around the house, would be able to check to see if someone's been taking their medications or eating properly, handle a small skin tear and monitor for infection (etc), and have a problem solving mind that likes to help others continue to be independent.
I guess I'm just looking for ideas on how to frame this for my smaller city (about 20,000). There is already a volunteer group that covers similar things, like driving to doctor's appointments, but they don't include interpretations and solutions to individual's problems (say perhaps, finding an OT that can create ergonomical eating utensils (or even jerry-rigging some myself with a cloth and tape over a handle temporarily), or a contractor for a home modification for ease of mobility)... and they don't offer continuity of care and monitoring, from what I understand.
Let me know what YOU would want from what I'm describing so that I can propose what I will do for a client, and to create a mission statement.
Thanks hive mind!